Robert Scheer

Contributing Editor

Robert Scheer, a contributing editor to The Nation, is editor of Truthdig.com and author of The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street (Nation Books), The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America (Twelve) and Playing President (Akashic Books). He is author, with Christopher Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry, of The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq (Akashic Books and Seven Stories Press.) His weekly column, distributed by Creators Syndicate, appears in the San Francisco Chronicle.

In Your Dreams, Condi In Your Dreams, Condi

Condoleezza Rice's myopic optimism mirrors that of the delusional Dick Cheney: Witness her refusal to be alarmed by rise of Moqtada al Sadr.

Feb 15, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer

Bush’s War on the Poor Bush’s War on the Poor

George W. Bush's irrational governance has wrought yet another outrage: The Administration's $2.77-trillion budget request.

Feb 8, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer

Enron’s Enablers Enron’s Enablers

As the Enron trial unfolds, it's depressing that Phil and Wendy Gramm, the company's political enablers, are going unpunished and uncriticized.

Feb 1, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer

You’ve Got Jail You’ve Got Jail

Obsessed voyeurs in the Bush Administration are poking their noses into everyone's business, with the help of Internet giants like Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo.

Jan 25, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer

Meanwhile, Back in Afghanistan Meanwhile, Back in Afghanistan

It's appalingly clear Team Bush is unwilling to do the hard work it takes to make Afghanistan the functioning nation it was before cold war games tore it apart.

Jan 18, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer

Shame of the Once-Young Republicans Shame of the Once-Young Republicans

What irony that Jack Abramoff and other once-young Republicans, who hectored their elders about defending the nation's taxpayers and security forces, should now be accused of deepl...

Jan 11, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer

Abramoff’s Sordid World Abramoff’s Sordid World

The unfolding Jack Abramoff corruption scandal exposes the hypocrisy of the GOP "revolution," which promised to restore morality to Washington but instead sank deepinto a cesspool ...

Jan 4, 2006 / Column / Robert Scheer

Dr. Germ and Mrs. Anthrax Set Free Dr. Germ and Mrs. Anthrax Set Free

Why is it not bigger news that these infamous Iraqi scientists have been quietly released from imprisonment in Iraq without any charges being brought by their US captors?

Dec 28, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer

Pyrrhic Victory Pyrrhic Victory

The best outcome for US policy is the hope that Shiite and Sunni fanatics can check each other long enough for the United States to beat a credible retreat and call it a victory, a...

Dec 21, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer

Human Rights, Rendered Meaningless Human Rights, Rendered Meaningless

The outsourcing of torture to other countries is a devilishly clever legalistic fiction that allows the Bush Administration to systematically violate basic human rights of terror s...

Dec 14, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer

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